‘If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin how else can you describe them?’ said Hilary Benn
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Full report: Police use water cannon against rioters in Northern Ireland
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Tell us: how have you been affected by the situation in Belfast?
Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrrow, picking up from Aneesa Ahmed.
In his interviews this morning, Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, said that 1,000 people had been removed from Northern Ireland over the past year as a result of immigration enforcement and he said that even more checks were planned.
For over a century, people from the United Kingdom and Ireland have been able to live and work and travel freely across the British Isles [under the common travel area], and every single day here in Northern Ireland, people cross that border to go to work, to shop, to visit friends, to worship, and vice versa.
It’s brought huge benefit to the people of the British Isles, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and Ireland.
